Kay Radzik Warren, seen here in front of a representation of the sun at the Planetarium Wednesday Jan 16, 2014, is in the running to be one of the first colonists on Mars.

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And if all goes well, in little more than a decade, she'll be a Martian.

Warren, 53, is one of 1,058 people from around the world still in the running to become part of the first human habitation of Mars. The group has been winnowed from more than 200,000 people who applied to be part of the nonprofit Mars One Foundation project. ...